Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
I will ask one final question. The witnesses mentioned the childcare aspect, and that they would be looking at doing specific measures of affordable childcare for certain areas. What I got from that is that it was maybe more deprived areas. There is a policy outcome of that as well. We know single mothers are most at risk of poverty because of barriers in terms of accessing childcare and, therefore, barriers in terms of entering employment. Is that basically the focus in order to lift people out of poverty?
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